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Every in-kernel use of this function defined it to KERNEL_DS (either as an actual define, or as an inline function). It's an entirely historical artifact, and long long long ago used to actually read the segment selector valueof '%ds' on x86. Which in the kernel is always KERNEL_DS. Inspired by a patch from Jann Horn that just did this for a very small subset of users (the ones in fs/), along with Al who suggested a script. I then just took it to the logical extreme and removed all the remaining gunk. Roughly scripted with git grep -l '(get_ds())' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i 's/(get_ds())/(KERNEL_DS)/' git grep -lw 'get_ds' -- :^tools/ | xargs sed -i '/^#define get_ds()/d' plus manual fixups to remove a few unusual usage patterns, the couple of inline function cases and to fix up a comment that had become stale. The 'get_ds()' function remains in an x86 kvm selftest, since in user space it actually does something relevant. Inspired-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Inspired-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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vdso | ||
asm-offsets.c | ||
atl2c.c | ||
cacheinfo.c | ||
devtree.c | ||
dma.c | ||
ex-entry.S | ||
ex-exit.S | ||
ex-scall.S | ||
fpu.c | ||
ftrace.c | ||
head.S | ||
irq.c | ||
Makefile | ||
module.c | ||
nds32_ksyms.c | ||
perf_event_cpu.c | ||
pm.c | ||
process.c | ||
ptrace.c | ||
setup.c | ||
signal.c | ||
sleep.S | ||
stacktrace.c | ||
sys_nds32.c | ||
syscall_table.c | ||
time.c | ||
traps.c | ||
vdso.c | ||
vmlinux.lds.S |